Benjamin Clementine

Music isn't a competition.

— Benjamin Clementine

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

— Benjamin Clementine

Not all families stay together.

— Benjamin Clementine

Fame is like icin' on the cake.

— Benjamin Clementine

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

— Benjamin Clementine

My music isn't mainstream music.

— Benjamin Clementine

My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.

— Benjamin Clementine

You can't judge people by their cover.

— Benjamin Clementine

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

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I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.

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I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to…

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I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.

— Benjamin Clementine

I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.

— Benjamin Clementine

Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

— Benjamin Clementine

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

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Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

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The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but…

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I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered…

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I personally don't know what nerves are. I don't get scared when I'm going to play music. But I think something, maybe…

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I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes…

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When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to…

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Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.

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I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear…

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I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with…

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On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I…

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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all…

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Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be…

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I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear.…

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I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young,…

— Benjamin Clementine

Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the…

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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk…

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I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was…

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I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

— Benjamin Clementine

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

— Benjamin Clementine

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

— Benjamin Clementine

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

— Benjamin Clementine

I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

— Benjamin Clementine

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

— Benjamin Clementine

I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.

— Benjamin Clementine